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Open your mouth as wide as possible until it's square. You get a mouth.
把你的嘴张得越大越好，直到变成正方形。这就是一个“口”字。
This is a person going for a walk. Person.
这是一个人正在散步。“人”字。
If the shape of the fire is a person with two arms on both sides,
“火”字的形状就是一个人在两边有两只胳膊，
as if she was yelling frantically, "Help! I'm on fire!"
好像她正在大喊大叫：“救命啊！我着火了！”
This symbol actually is originally from the shape of the flame,
实际上，这符号最初来自于火苗的形状，
but I like to think that way. Whichever works for you.
但是我喜欢那方法。大家随便选。
This is a tree. Tree. This is a mountain.
这是一棵树木。“木”。这是一座"山”。

The sun. The moon. The symbol of the door looks like a pair of saloon doors in the wild west.
“日”。“月”。“門”的符号，就像狂野西部片里轿车上的一对门。
I call these eight characters radicals.
我称这八个字为基本字，
They are the building blocks for you to create lots more characters.
它们是一堆组件，以创造出很多其他的字。
A person. If someone walks behind, that is "to follow."
一个“人”。如果另一个人走在后面，意思就是“跟随”。
As the old saying goes, two is company, three is a crowd.
有句谚语，二人为从，三人为众。
If a person stretched their arms wide, this person is saying, "It was this big."
如果有个人打开双臂，这个人说：“它有这么大。”
The person inside the mouth, the person is trapped.
把“人”放在“口”里，这个人被困住了。
He's a prisoner, just like Jonah inside the whale.
他就变成了“囚”徒，就像约拿被困在鲸鱼肚子里。

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对于外国人来说，学说汉语是一件困难的任务，但是学习阅读这些优美复杂的书面汉字可会容易些。薛晓岚通过简单的课堂，教导学生认识汉字背後理念和其意思，由简单的字根组成到复杂的概念。她管这方法叫“Chineasy”。